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What is the Washoe Regional Travel
Survey?
Why Should my Household
Participate?
Privacy Statement
Frequently Asked
Questions
Check out the Survey Materials
What is the Washoe Regional
Travel Survey?
It is a survey of daily travel in Washoe County. Daily travel includes the everyday travel that people do as they go about their lives, such as going to and from work, going grocery shopping, visiting friends, going to the gym, going to the mall to hang out or shop, viewing basketball games, stopping for coffee or gas, or even just walking the dog or jogging around the neighborhood!
Every household in the survey is assigned a day on which to record their daily travel. Each household member receives a travel log – the use of this log is very important in this survey. People are asked to record every place they go and every stop they make for a 24-hour period. If people do not use the log, they forget to write down places they’ve visited on their travel day, like quick stops to grab some food or cash from an ATM, or dropping off a friend.
The survey results will provide a reliable picture of the actual travel patterns of all types of people in the region – information that will be used to make planning and funding decisions about jogging paths, sidewalks, bike routes, roads, transit, and other transportation infrastructure.
The local sponsor of the survey is the Regional Transportation Commission (RTC), which is responsible for transportation planning in Washoe County. For more information, contact Bobbi Coulter, Project Representative for RTC, by phone at (775) 771-7320 or by email bjcoulter@charter.net.
The survey is being conducted by NuStats and its survey data collection center, NuStats DataSource, nationally recognized for their travel survey practice. For more information, contact Stacey Bricka at NuStats, phone (toll-free) at 1-800-447-8287 or email sbricka@nustats.com.
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Why Should my Household Participate?
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5 Reasons to Participate:
1. Transportation is important
to our community.
2. Everybody needs transportation
access to perform daily activities.
3. Sound transportation planning
requires reliable information.
4. Making the right transportation
improvements is extremely important to the health of
our local economy.
5. Your participation will provide
a solid foundation for this region's transportation
future.
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Privacy Statement
The entire Washoe
Regional Travel Survey team is totally committed
to balancing the need for statistical information
with a respect for individual privacy. Confidentiality
is critical to the success of our study. Any information
obtained in the course of this survey will be held
in the strictest of confidence. We want you to feel
secure in providing candid responses to our questions.
Your responses will only be used to develop overall
statistics about transportation behavior of citizens
that live Spokane and Kootenai Counties. So, your
name and other identifying information will be stored
separately from the data files containing your responses.
Your decision to participate is voluntary and you
may decline to answer any question.
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